"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On 28 Jun 2004 22:56:48 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote:

By 1972, the table was most assuredly round and all
four parties were involved in the negotiation.

According to several books I've read, only the NVN and US were in Paris...at
least at the peace accords.

As has been earlier mentioned here, one of the stumbling blocks was
the unwillingness of Diem regime to concede some of the points agreed
to beween the US and NVN.

Ed, Ngo Dihn Diem was killed in 1963, the SVN President in 1972 was Nguyen
Van
Thieu whom the North refused to negotiate with since they claimed his regime
was illegitimate.

Encroaching senility. Meant Thieu. His representative was Le Duc Tho.

You should have quit when you were ahead, Ed. Look below, or read it and weep:

"Le Duc Tho was born in Nam Ha province, Vietnam on 14th October, 1911. As a
young man he became involved in radical politics and in 1930 helped establish
the Indochinese Communist Party. He campaigned against French rule in Vietnam
and was twice imprisoned for his political activities (1930-36 and 1939-44).

In 1945 Le Duc Tho returned to Hanoi and joined with Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen
Giap in establishing the Vietnam Revolutionary League (Vietminh). Until 1954 he
was Vietminh's leader in South Vietnam. A member of the Politburo of the Vietnam
Workers' Party, he had responsibility for organizing the rebellion against the
government of South Vietnam.

Peace talks between representatives from United States, South Vietnam, North
Vietnam and the NLF began in Paris in January, 1969. Le Duc Tho served as
special adviser to the North Vietnamese delegation. He eventually became North
Vietnamese leader in these talks."


George Z.